Opinion Survey

Opinion Survey on the Management Education Scenario in India

Listed below are 18 Questions designed to solicit your considered opinion on the establishment of a first rate Management School in India and launching a Post Graduate Programme in Management (MBA). Please indicate your response by tick-marking ( Ö ) the appropriate box

Name of the responding Organisation:
Address :
Telephone :
Fax : 
E-mail :
Name and designation of 
the person responding :
 

QUESTIONNAIRE

 
1. Do you think management education and training should be fully residential :

  Yes            No
 
2. What in your opinion is the ideal location of a fully residential Management Institute :
 
  Within the city
 
  About an hour's journey from the main city centre

  One and a half hours' journey

  Two hours' journey

  Three hours journey.
 
3. What in your opinion should be the duration of a Post Graduate Management Programme (MBA) :

  One Year.                         Two Years.

  Two and a half Years.        Three Years.

  Four Years.
 
4. What should be the minimum educational qualification of aspiring entrants to an MBA programme :

  Graduate with 60% marks in aggregate

  Graduate with 55% marks in aggregate

  Graduate with 50% marks in aggregate

  Simple graduate

  Any other (Please specify)  
 
5. What should be the desired age group for entrants to an MBA programme :
 
  18-24 Years.        18-28 Years.

  18-30 Years.        No upper age limit.
  

6. It is observed that in every premier management institute more than 60 per cent of MBA students are Engineering graduates. Do you think that the pattern should change :

 
  Yes            No
 

7. Often, attempts are made to distinguish between an Engineer MBA and a Non-Engineer MBA. Do you think it does make positive difference between an Engineer MBA and Non-Engineer MBA in real-life work situation. Please tick-mark the degree of such difference :

 
  Remarkable difference.       Moderate difference.

  No remarkable difference.   Engineer-MBAs are worse than Non-Engineer MBAs
 

8. A number of Management Schools are found to give varied weightages to different aspects of admission tests for MBA entrants. What in your opinion should the weightages be. Please indicate the weight against each attribute along a hundred-point scale :
 

Aspects

Weightage

a)  Educational excellence beyond the required minimum standard :  
b)  Work experience :  
c)  Written Test :  
d)  Group discussion :  
e)  Personal interview :  
f)  Essay Writing, Letters of reference etc. :  
g)  Any other (please specify) :  

Total

100


9. For a premier management institute (not dependent on Government aid) which desires to bring out high quality management graduates what should be the consolidated Annual fee structure for a full-time residential MBA programme :
 

 
  Rs. 4.00 lakh.                       Rs. 3.00 lakh.

  Rs. 2.00 lakh.                       Rs. 1.50 lakh.

  Rs. 1.00 lakh.                       Rs. 75,000

  Rs. 50,000                           Less than Rs. 50,000
 

10. The maximum number of subjects that should be taught in a day to make an MBA programme more effective :

 
  4 - 5 subjects per day

  2 subjects per day

  1 subject per day

  Any other (Please specify) 
 

11. In most of the management schools it is a common practice that in the first year full-time MBA students are required to undergo foundation courses in various disciplines of management like, Behavioural Science, Managerial Economics, Systems & MIS, Marketing, Finance etc. But in the second year practices differ. Some management schools offer specialisation (majors) in a particular discipline of management, say Marketing, Finance etc. believing that it is "an age of specialisation" while others do not offer any specialisation as such (though students are free to take up courses as they desire in any specialised area) believing that Management Schools should prepare managers for general management responsibilities. We desire to know which view you subscribe :

 
  Specialisation of the first type above.

  General management of the second type above.
 

12. Some management schools offer as many as 90 optional courses to their second year MBA students ; of them the students are required to take about 15 courses according to their choice. One view is that students should be given absolute freedom to select optional courses according to their own understanding; the other view is that it is the Faculty in consultation with the Students (representatives) who would decide a package of courses for every year according to the demand of industry and trade, both present and future. Which view do you subscribe :

 
  Students themselves decide the optionals

  Faculty in consultation with students decide the optionals
 

13. Globalisation of business demands extensive communication between international trade partners in languages other than English. In view of this do you think management students should learn a few foreign languages other than English as part of their curricula :

  
  Yes

  No
  
14. If your response is "Yes" to question No.13 please tick below the languages you prefer :
 
  French German Swiss Japanese

  Chinese Korean 

  Any other (Please specify)   


15. There is a general practice amongst reputed management schools to send their students on industrial internship (summer or winter placement) for about 60 days as a part of the MBA programme. What are, in your opinion, the benefits or otherwise of such internship :
 

It adds value to the MBA programme
 
It is a waste of time
 

It provides an opportunity to the organisation to assess the capabilities of the candidate in real-life work-situation for future employment

 

Initial assessment of a candidate during internship is generally routine and perfunctory and do not have much impact on final selection

 

During internship the students often produce valuable output as a part of their project work which are useful to the organisation

 

Quality of outputs are rather poor


16. If you feel that internship training as above, does add value to the MBA programme what is your opinion about the duration and timing of such interim placement :
 

(A) DURATION (B) TIMING
One month After successful completion of first year teaching
Two months Around the middle of the second year
Three months  After the successful completion of both first and second year teaching program
 
17. Since 1988 the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is giving approval to various Post-graduate Management Programmes run by different management schools as equivalent to MBA degree awarded by universities. we seek your opinion as to how much difference does AICTE approval make while recruiting management graduates :
 
  It is an essential condition for recruitment

  It is a necessary condition

  It does not matter

  Any other (Please specify) 
 

18. Kindly list down four of the most important attributes of a 21st century manager that you shall be looking for while recruiting an MBA :
  

 A.

 B.

 C.

 D.
  

 

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